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July 2023 at the Glucksman Welcome to the July edition of the Glucksman newsletter.There are only nine days left to view Hollow Earth: Art, Caves, and the Subterranean Imaginary, including a wonderful opportunity on 6 July to gain insights into cave exploration with Dr. Denise McCullagh in our free In Detail conversation.Our Summer Art Clubs run weekly throughout July and August, but our galleries will be fully closed to the public from 10-27 July for the installation of our next exhibition détour: Selected Works from the FRAC Bretagne Collection - as a newsletter subscriber you will receive an invitation to the private view on Thursday 27 July. Keep an eye out in your inbox for this and be sure to rsvp if you can attend. We have also launched an open call to all craft makers and designers wishing to participate in this year's Craft + Design Fair so please spread the word to any creative makers you know who may wish to take part. In the Behind the Scenes, we look back at Tamsin Snow's Relic, a newly commissioned off-site installation for Cork Midsummer Festival 2023 and this month's Little Interview features Ximena Moreno, our 2023 Nicholas Fox Weber Curatorial Resident visiting Cork from Santiago, Chile. We very much hope to welcome you in person during the final days of our current show, or online.
The GLUCKSMAN team
Image Caption: Installation view of Tamsin Snow: Relic, photograph by Jed Niezgoda
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Hollow Earth: Art, Caves and the Subterranean Imaginary
Artists: Hamed Abdalla, Lee Bontecou, Sofia Borges, Brassaï, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Steven Clayton, Amanda Coogan, Matt Copson, Juan Downey, Chioma Ebinama, Mary Beth Edelson, Laura Emsley, Barry Flanagan, Leo Frobenius, Ilana Halperin, Frank Heath, Ed Herring, Peter Hujar, Athanasius Kircher, René Magritte, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Santu Mofokeng, Henry Moore, Nadar, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Lydia Ourahmane, Gordon Parks, Flora Parrott, Walter Pichler, Liv Preston, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart, N.H. Stubbing, Caragh Thuring, Kaari Upson, Aubrey Williams, Joseph Wright of Derby.
A Hayward Touring exhibition developed in partnership with Nottingham Contemporary.
Please join us for the last week of Hollow Earth: Art, Caves and The Subterranean Imaginary, described by The Guardian as "a glorious meditation on geology, early art and shamanic visions." Hollow Earth is a major thematic exhibition which brings together a wide range of responses to the image and idea of the cave. It includes painting, photography, sculpture, sound, installation and video, as well as archives and architectural models, stretching from 1960 to today, alongside works from the 18th and 19th centuries.
On now until 9 July 2023 Image caption: Installation view of Hollow Earth, photograph: Jed Niezgoda |
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 | Upcoming Exhibitions
détour: Selected Works from the FRAC Bretagne Collection
Artists: Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Sigurdur Árni Sigurdsson, John Armleder, Isabelle Arthuis, Cécile Bart, Katinka Bock, Etienne Bossut, Silvia Bächli, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Chiara Camoni, John Duncan, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Raymond Hains, Mark Lewis, Vera Molnar, François Morellet, Charlotte Moth, Maria Nordman, Thomas Teurlai & Ugo Schiavi, Jacques Villeglé, Franz Erhard Walther, Jackie Winsor, Gil J. Wolman
Curated by Chris Clarke
In 1956, the French artists Gil J. Wolman and Guy Debord proposed a guide to détournement, re-purposing advertisements and magazines as a means of subverting society. This practice, which included cutting up city maps to encourage unplanned excursions through the city of Paris, was a way to effect disorientation. As the writers stated: “not many people would remain unaffected by an exact reconstruction in one city of an entire neighbourhood of another.”
détour presents selected works from the collection of the FRAC Bretagne in Rennes, France. In addition to Gil J. Wolman’s 1960s collages, the exhibition includes artworks such as Raymond Hains’ photographs of signs found in rural villages, Vera Molnar’s computer-generated renderings of the Saint-Victoire mountain range, and Charlotte Moth’s filmed depiction of Parisian architecture. Thomas Teurlai and Ugo Schiavi’s display showcases scrolls of recovered graffiti samples, while Isabelle Arthuis’ evocative black-and-white images capture the landscape during a nocturnal eclipse. Through works by contemporary international artists, détour reimagines and reconstructs the FRAC Bretagne collection, transposed to Rennes’ sister city of Cork and the Glucksman’s unique architectural setting.
28 July - 4 November 2023
Image caption: Isabelle Arthuis, L'Eclipse 1 (Randonneurs), 1999. photograph. Frac Bretagne Collection |
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 | Looking closely at a work of art In Detail is a series of public conversations that focus on a single artwork. Inviting academic experts from various backgrounds and pairing them with a Glucksman curator, these sessions provide an opportunity to focus on a single artwork from an unusual perspective. This series, we are delighted to invite Dr. Denise McCullagh to share insights into cave explorations and respond to the exhibition Hollow Earth: Art, Caves, and the Subterranean Imaginary.
Dr. Denise McCullagh is a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Impacts and Adaptation Group at MaREI, University College Cork, Ireland. Denise’s research focuses on climate adaptation in the public, private and third sectors, from local to international scales. She is a researcher on a number of projects including the EU-Horizon project REACHOUT, in collaboration with Cork City Council and research and academic partners across Europe, and Climate Ireland, a national resource to support climate adaptation planning in Ireland. Denise is also the lead researcher on the Transboundary Adaptation Learning Exchange (TALX) project, supporting the development of place-based adaptation partnerships and the assessment of national climate adaptation policy in the UK and Ireland. Denise is an active member of Cork Speleological Society.
1pm, Thursday 6 July 2023 This is a free event. All welcome. |
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 | | Summer Art Club The Glucksman Summer Art Clubs are back! We are excited to be offering seven creative clubs for young people through July and August. Led by experienced facilitators, children will undertake imaginative projects and create unique artworks when learning about painting, sculpture, printmaking, collage and drawing.
Glucksman Art Clubs fuel children’s imaginations, develop their artistic skills and encourage their creativity. Each session is carefully designed to provide age-appropriate projects and are delivered in a friendly and positive environment.
Visit our website for more information. Booking is essential. |
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 | | Glucksman Shop Summer is here! Did you know we have multi activity kits, creative activities, board games and much more in our gallery shop and online! The perfect way to spend some time and create wonderful projects with the children during their holidays. Visit us in the gallery shop or check out our online shop here. |
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 | Craft + Design Fair 2023An open call for all craft makers and designers wishing to participate in this year’s Craft + Design Fair is now underway.
Taking place in our airy, spacious galleries from November 10-12, we invite all interested designers to submit a completed application form by 17 September 2023.
The Glucksman's Craft + Design Fair showcases high quality Irish craft and design in the beautiful setting of the gallery’s award-winning exhibition spaces. The Craft Fair has been established since 2008 and has developed into a successful partnership between the gallery, craft makers and designers within Ireland, as well as becoming one of Ireland’s most prestigious fairs. |
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 | Behind the ScenesAs the title suggests, Relic spoke of ideas of antiquation and outdatedness, of how modern innovations inevitably become supplanted by new devices and technologies or by their own built-in failure. The second room featured an installation of Automated Teller Machines, 3-D printed in colours that recalled computer mainframes and early IBMs. The ATM, increasingly irrelevant in the age of mobile banking and financial technology, was once criticised itself for putting bank tellers out of work. On their screens, a series of computer animated films presented glimpses of labs, research and development sites, and factories, all devoid of human workers. They pointed to future technologies, of computers making computers, and, in turn, of the debris and waste that will be eventually left over.
In the first section of the installation, Snow's 3D-printed sculptures 3-D printed sculptures echoed the surrounding urban environment - visible through the adjacent windows. Two coloured, blown-up versions of street grates were displaced from their usual surroundings to evoke an almost cartoonist sensibility, while a pair of hanging, upside-down street lamps emit a dull glow. Other enlarged sculptural elements - a bent SIM card and a card tray holder from a mobile phone - were also subtly positioned here, while an atmospheric soundtrack by Daniel Snow, drifted across both rooms of the installation: the composition played out of sync, overlapping and jarring in certain moments, and coincidentally aligning in others.
Relic reflected Snow's interests in the built environment, processes of automation, and technological innovation and obsolescence. The show was designed for the interior spaces of the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, for Cork Midsummer Festival 2023 and supported Arts Council of Ireland.
Image caption: Installation view of Tamsin Snow: Relic, photograph: Jed Niezgoda
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